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Thursday, Apr 25th, 2024 - April 25 (UPI) -- The crew of the first Boeing Starliner space mission on Thursday arrived at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida ahead of the spacecraft's debut manned mission on May 6. Veteran NASA astronauts Barry "Butch" Wilmore and Sunita "Suni" Williams will be commander and pilot of the Crew Flight Test mission to the International Space Station. The Boeing CST-100 Starliner is set to lift off on May 6 ...

Thursday, Apr 25th, 2024 - A crew of three astronauts from China's Shenzhou-18 mission took off on a rocket bound for the Tiangong space station Thursday, the latest mission in Beijing's space programme that aims to send astronauts to the Moon by 2030. The crew took off on a spaceship on top of a Long March-2F rocket from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in China's northwest at 8:59 pm local time (1259 GMT). The mission is led by Ye ...

Thursday, Apr 25th, 2024 - NASA's interstellar spacecraft, Voyager 1, is coming back online, the space agency announced on April 22. After months of troubleshooting a glitch on Voyager 1 that caused the spacecraft to send home unusable data, the probe is working again and returning usable data about the health and status of its onboard engineering systems. The next step, NASA said, is to enable the probe to begin returning science data. NASA ...

Thursday, Apr 25th, 2024 - As our planet warms and urban areas expand, the threat of mosquito-borne diseases such as malaria and dengue is escalating, reaching regions previously untouched by these dangerous illnesses. Now, with over half of the global population at risk, these diseases have quickly become a critical concern worldwide. The global spread of disease vectors Mosquitoes , the primary vectors for diseases like malaria and dengue, ...